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Canadian primetime programming faring well: CMF
However, the Canada Media Fund’s annual report reveals that viewership to its funded programming categories declined, as Canadians flipped the dial to popular unscripted fare.
ACTRA Toronto to give Rick Mercer award of excellence
The Rick Mercer Report host will receive the tribute at the 2012 ACTRA Awards.
Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs
Transformers takes over the top spot for the release of its latest installment, Dark Side of the Moon.
Rockies add new doc, animation categories
The prize-giving portion of the Banff World Media Festival is now open to new factual and animated programming genres.
Montreal Int’l Doc Fest to honour Frederick Wiseman
The octogenarian director will be feted with a major retrospective, and his latest film, Crazy Horse, will open the fest.
Spy Films launches 3D division
The short film and TV commercial production house thinks there will be big business in the third dimension – once the nerdy glasses are gone.
Astral’s Harold Greenberg Fund backs Jonathan Sobol and Anita Doron films
The industry fund is investing in two writer-directors set to shift their careers in new directions, says English language program president John Galway.
Canada’s Got Talent names host, judges
Breakfast Television’s Dina Pugliese will host the show, which premieres in 2012.
Planet in Focus honours the best in ‘green’ film
The annual festival in Toronto wraps by handing out a bevy of awards for environmentally minded films.
2011 WIFT-T Crystal Award winners named
The Women in Film & Television Toronto chapter will honour CBC exec Julie Bristow and two others at its annual awards gala.
Kill Shakespeare co-creators headed to Sundance film festival lab
Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery will work on adapting their comic book series, based on classic William Shakespeare characters, into a movie screenplay.
VIFF 2011: Anne Emond’s Nuit #1 wins top jury prize
Quebec films continue their Canadian festival competition dominance as Guy Edoin’s Wetlands is named first-runner-up in Vancouver.
Corus names Lee VP of sales
Media vet Gordon Lee has been promoted at the Toronto-based company, overseeing BDU relationships and platform strategies.
Hot Docs promotes Sarafina DiFelice
The festival’s associate programmer gets a new title to fill a post left vacant with the departure of Karina Rotenstein.
Cineflix Media hires Lisa Levenson in Los Angeles
The Canadian prodco is adding a Los Angeles office to shop global formats in Hollywood.
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